Name: Strauss' Salome
Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-07-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Admin

London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Antonio Pappano

Singer

Soprano

Asmik Grigorian

Salome

Baritone

Michael Volle

John the Baptist

Orchestra

Strauss' Salome

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Strauss' Salome: Salome Strauss

Public

Rahul Karaguppi

Approved

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts a concert performance of Strauss’ scandalous opera Salome, with the brilliant soprano Asmik Grigorian in the title role.

The Music
The story of Salome has fascinated artists, writer and painters for centuries. Richard Strauss’s version of this anti-heroine comes from a drama by Oscar Wilde. Both play and opera scandalised society, and even today the opera has a visceral power with its combination of lust, religion and disturbingly gory ‘love-song’, and its sensuous, shocking music.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble